Abstract: A crushing and mill device includes an outer rotary disk (1) and an inner rotary disk (2) put in said outer rotary disk, wherein, the outer and inner rotary disks communicate the inlet (3) of the feed material, some through holes (20) communicating the outer and inner disk are provided on the sidewall of the inner disk, some carrier plates (4) for carrying the feed material are provided on the places that correspond to the through holes (20) on the disks. The rotations of the outer and inner disks are driven by motors, and the rotations direction of the inner and outer disks are opposite. The sidewall of outer disk has an outlet (10) of the feed material. The feed material enters the inner and outer disks from the inlet, and the feed material is shot off oppositely by the rotations of the outer and inner disk. The feed material passes the through holes of the inner disk and impacts with each other to be broken and milled.

Abstract: A birdcage multi-channel body coil has a number of coil units that form a cylindrical shape, and they are connected in succession in the circumferential direction along the side face of the cylinder. The coil units are provided with capacitors with selected capacitance values that eliminate coupling between the coil units. This multi-channel body coil simply and conveniently eliminates the coupling between the coil units.

Abstract: Luminescent materials and methods of forming such materials arc described herein. In one embodiment, a luminescent material has the formula: [AaSnbXxX?x?X?x?][dopant], wherein A is included in the luminescent material as a monovalent cation; X, X?, and X? are selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; a is in the range of 1 to 5; b is in the range of 1 to 3; a sum of x, x?, and x? is a +2b; and at least X? is iodine, such that x?(a+2b)?1/5.

Abstract: The invention provides novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides and mutants or variants thereof that correspond to a novel human secreted CD84-like polypeptide. These polynucleotides comprise nucleic acid sequences isolated from cDNA library from human spleen (Hyseq clone identification numbers 2938352 (SEQ ID NO: 1)). Other aspects of the invention include vectors containing processes for producing novel human secreted CD84-like polypeptides, and antibodies specific for such polypeptides.

Abstract: A bracket type biogas storage cover includes a cover with an exhaust vent, characterized in that there are at least two brackets which are used to fix the cover to a biogas digester's opening on the lower edge of the cover.

Abstract: A semiconductor package having a low profile is disclosed. In embodiments, a surface mounted component may be mounted directly to the core of the semiconductor package substrate, so that there is no conductive layer, plating layers or solder paste between the component and the substrate core. The surface mounted component may be any type of component which may be surface mounted on a substrate according to an SMT process, including for example passive components and various packaged semiconductors.

Abstract: In a method for processing radio frequency signals of a magnetic resonance imaging system in which the coil portion of the magnetic resonance imaging system includes a body coil and a local coil, radio frequency signals are supplied to the body coil, and these radio frequency signals are coupled to said local coil, and transmitted by said local coil into a region to be examined. A corresponding radio frequency system has a local coil and a body coil, with power coupling between the local coil and the body coil; during the phase for transmitting the radio frequency signals. The body coil serves to couple the radio frequency signals to be transmitted to the local coil, and the local coil serves to transmit the coupled radio frequency signals to a region to be examined. This method and system allow the transmitting function of the local coil to be achieved without having a coil plug on a patient bed to provide a radio frequency signal transmitting channel.

Abstract: An object detection method and an object detection system, suitable for detecting moving object information of a video stream having a plurality of images, are provided. The method performs a moving object foreground detection on each of the images, so as to obtain a first foreground detection image comprising a plurality of moving objects. The method also performs a texture object foreground detection on each of the images, so as to obtain a second foreground detection image comprising a plurality of texture objects. The moving objects in the first foreground detection image and the texture objects in the second foreground detection image are selected and filtered, and then the remaining moving objects or texture objects after the filtering are output as real moving object information.

Abstract: A multi-state target tracking method and a multi-state target tracking system are provided. The method detects a crowd density of a plurality of images in a video stream and compares the detected crowd density with a threshold when receiving the video stream, so as to determine a tracking mode used for detecting the targets in the images. When the detected crowd density is less than the threshold, a background model is used to track the targets in the images. When the detected crowd density is greater than or equal to the threshold, a none-background model is used to track the targets in the images.

Abstract: The invention provides several improvements in feedwells, one of which being a feedwell (100) comprising a mixing zone (49) for dissipating the kinetic energy of a fluid comprising pulp, a settling zone (50) for promoting flocculation of the pulp and at least one inclined deflecting element (101) for at least partially separating the mixing zone from the settling zone. Other improvements include a shelf (3) at least partially defining an inclined path (4) for removing material from the shelf into a feedwell chamber; at least two outlets (111, 112) arranged in a substantially concentric relationship with respect to each other; a portion (123) of a second conduit (121) varies in its cross-sectional size and/or shape so as to connect a feed inlet (110) to a first conduit (120); and a partition (133) for partially separating an outer mixing zone (131) and an inner settling zone (132).

Abstract: In general, in a first aspect, the invention features a method that includes depositing a first material on a surface of an article to form a layer including the first material. The surface of the article includes a plurality of protrusions and the layer including the first material forms a plurality of lenses. Each lens corresponds to a protrusion on the substrate surface.

Abstract: A network connection status detecting system is provided for detecting a network connection status of a server, and the detecting system includes a plurality of monitoring servers and a central processing server. Each monitoring server is communicably coupled to the server and continues detecting the network connection status of the server. If the detected network connection status of the server is offline, offline information including an offline starting time will be produced. The central processing server contains a selected time interval and receives the offline information to compute a time difference between the offline starting times. If all time differences are smaller than the selected time interval, then the central processing server determines that the network connection status of the server is an offline status and records the earliest offline starting time as an offline time.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of method of establishing a gamma table using a system includes following steps. Providing a signal generator, a display device, and a color analyzer, consists of measuring luminance values of the images corresponding to a plurality of reference sampling points. Obtaining a luminance characteristic curve based on the reference sampling points and luminance values using Bezier curve interpolation. Locating the gray scales on the luminance characteristic curve with the same luminance values as the gray scales of a standard gamma table. And establishing a gamma table by comparing the gray scales of the standard gamma curve and the luminance characteristic curve.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radio-opaque composition comprising a cleavable, preferably enzymatically-cleavable, derivative of a physiologically tolerable organoiodine compound and a non-acrylic polymer wherein said derivative is incorporated in said non-acrylic polymer.

Abstract: A color enhancement method for a display device includes obtaining color information of a first display frame from the display, determining a dominant color according to the color information obtained, and color enhancing a second display frame following the first display frame by adjusting the second display frame according to the dominant color. The dominant color is obtained by analyzing the preceding display frame and dynamically enhancing the second display frame.

Abstract: An exemplary method for cutting a first printed circuit board (PCB) into a plurality of second PCBs, the method includes: providing a plurality of first dimension parameters of the first PCB; providing a plurality of second dimension parameters and an interval parameter of the second PCB; performing a process for selecting a best calculating mode and a corresponding cutting parameter according to the first dimension parameters, the second dimension parameters, and the interval parameter; calculating coordinate parameters of each second PCB; and cutting the first PCB into the plurality of second PCBs.

Abstract: A carbon nanosphere has at least one opening. The carbon nanosphere is obtained by preparing a carbon nanosphere and treating it with an acid to form the opening. The carbon nanosphere with at least one opening has higher utilization of a surface area and electrical conductivity and lower mass transfer resistance than a conventional carbon nanotube, thus allowing for higher current density and cell voltage with a smaller amount of metal catalyst per unit area of a fuel cell electrode.

Abstract: A body coil assembly for a magnetic resonance apparatus has a first coil and a second coil for generating a radio-frequency field in space, and a power control apparatus connected to the first coil and the second coil for controlling the transmitting power of the first coil and the second coil. In a method for generating a radio-frequency field using such a body coil assembly, the transmitting powers of the first coil and the second coil are controlled, to provide unequal transmitting powers to the first coil and the second coil when needed to generate a required radio-frequency field distribution, so as to form a stronger field strength at a certain position, thus improving the signal to noise ratio at that position during the receiving process.

Abstract: A volume coil for a magnetic resonance imaging system is composed of a number of coil units. In the coil, there are overlapped parts between two adjacent ones of the coil units for eliminating coupling between these two adjacent coil units. Two next-adjacent ones of the coil units, which are separated from each other by one coil unit, are each provided with an inductor, and these two inductors are coupled with each other for eliminating coupling between these two next-adjacent coil units. All coil units are collected on one axial end face of the coil. Two coil units in the coil that are neither adjacent coil units nor next-adjacent coil units are connected with each other on the end face by a capacitance circuit or a inductance circuit for eliminating the coupling between these two coil units that are neither adjacent coil units nor next-adjacent coil units.

Abstract: A knee coil for magnetic resonance imaging has a first, a second and a third array of coil units, the first, second and third array of coil units forming a cylindrical shape, and being adjacent to each other in the direction perpendicular to the bottom of the cylindrical shape. Each of the first array of coil units and the third array of coil units is composed of two saddle coil units, and the second array of coil units is composed of six coil units, which are successively adjacent to each other in the direction of circumference of the cylinder side face. With a simple design and at a low cost, this knee coil ensures good capacity of parallel acquisition in all directions in the course of scanning while reducing the number of channels.